The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-07-07
PAUL IN THE BASKET.
REV. DR.. TALMhCE BREACHES AT
MARTHA'5 VINEYARD.

MARTHA'5 VINEYARD.
Groat Results Hang on Apparently Stem
de~ Cireunstanrcs--The. Casual, tho
Accidental Are Parts of a Great Plan.
An Island Between Two Eternities.
MARTINS VINEYARD, Mass, July s.
Many hundreds of Brooklyn Tabernacle
people and their friends have made a pill
grim9ge to this place. 1t is one point in
an excursion OF six days, taking in New
port, Nantucket and this island. The
Rev. r. Dewitt YGlnage, p. D., preaefed
here this mOrallg in the great camp meet
ing tabernacle. Thousands Of people We're.
present from all parts Of New England.
The music was conducted by a band
DE-. Talmage's text was: Through a.
window in a basement was I let down by
the wall."-I Con- 2ci, 38. He said:
Sermons on PAN in jail Paul on Mars
IJl, Paul i'm tie shipwreck, Paul before
the Sanhedrim, Paul before Felix are
plentiful, bat in my text we have Paul in
u basket. Damascus is Il city of white
and qlistcnirg architecture, sometimes
called ''the eye of the East" sometimes
called "a pearl surrounded by emeralds, -
at one time distinguished for swords Of
the best material called Damascus blades,
and upholstery of richest fabric called
daInasks A hOrseman by the name Of
Saul, riding towards this city, had been
thrown from the saddle The horse had
dropped under q fash from the sky, which
at the same time was so bright it blinded
the rider fer many days, and, think, so
permanently injured his eyesight that this
defect of vision became the thorn in the
flesh he gftorwarI speaks Of. He started
for Damascus I'D butcher Christians, but
after that hard fall from his horse ne was
a changed man and preached Christ in
Damascus tiu the city was shaken to its
foundation,
The mayor gives authority for his ar
rest. and the popular cry is XIII himl Kill
himr' The city is surrounded by a high
wall ana the gates are watched by the
police lest the CiciIian preacher escape.
Many of the houses are built on the wall.
aud their balconies projected clear over
and huyered above the gardens outside
It was customary to lower baskets out Of
these balconies and pull up fruits and
flowers from the gardens. To this day
visitors at the monastery at Mount Sinai
are lifted and let down in baskets. De
tectiyes prowled around from house to
house looking for Paul. but his friends hid
him. now in one place now in another.
lie is no coward, as fifty incidents in his
life demonstrates. But he feels his work
is not done yet, and SO he eyades assassi
nation. els that preacher here?h the
foaming mob shout at one house door. Il
that fanatic hercy" the police shout at an
other house door Sometimes on the stree
incognitO ne passes through a crowd o
clenchcl fists and sometimes he secrete
himself on the hOusetups. At last the in
furated populace get on sure track o
him. They have positive evidence that Ii
is in the house of one of the Christians
the bllcOuy Of whose home reaches owe
the wall ''iTcre he is! Here he isn' Th
vociteyatiou and blasPhcluy and howlin,
OF the pursucrs are at the front door
They b-eak in. Fetch out that gospel
izar, and lot us hang his head on the cit.
gate Where is hcf' The emergency wa
terrible Tr0videutially there was a goo
stout basket in the house. PGuls friend
1ttsten a rope to the basket. Paul stcU
iuto it. The basket is lifted to the edg
of the balcony on the wall, and then Will
Paul holds on to the rope with both hand
lis friends lower away, carefully and cat
Iinusly. slowly bat surely, further dow
and further down, until the basket strike
tHc earth and the apostle steps out an
af,9i. and alone starts on that famOu
a.1issionary tour, the story of which hg
asto. .ishtd earth and heaven. Appropr
aie curry in paul's diary of travels
..lhrongh 70 window il basket Was / ll
down by the wall"
serve. first. ON what a slender tenuI
3 "t results hihS' nc .'''.l-s, -. v q
tt,F -aa tHa' cora lito'e'tt" % o..ty -I ~" =
depend upon the strength Of a. How
il had been broken and the apostles lli
hal been d3siied Guy; ~ H"V g""Ha u, i"t' ,4
become oi tle ohiiAIli'h Ch'rcIH All ,, 'iI'
magnificent missionary WORK III ~
pniiil, t5pp'docia, G''iAli''. hi"ce'lolL
would never -5i'N e '-th 'leeoiil lpiisiitfi. y
MS Wrl'iii-,S .ii'1 'A''lhe III ~ ,r," -
and ehchanHnS II paft OF Ulie Ne" ie"t
nent would never nave peeh %I4''el
me story o. IesulI'cylon "olti' Ii5'
nave Dceh 50 4loiiousi5 Oo4o as Ae OoAt
Ihat example OF hefolc ana Irltlsl'Il,ll ,.li
ennurahce at 4hll liie -'ie''I ~ liJ'
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0gth' EItlo it'oA.' ''"'O '''''7 va "A
seemed Siehuef clrC lii"a'4>ilols'
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crossing the sea nave Such lIiipuitlJll pa
senger as A'd once y pu'U u 1g', r. 60 i.o ,
t9trah TO s'efl' ohiy tnlee OK .. iooa 'I,i. iee
1ne NeSsel n13oS "'l'e' PI'oL ~ t, 90
bitumen' ana noa'iAs On SLo M ~. ~
1he lnIaht l'"Sl'or oI we yeNS vi lI 'ol'l
aaI II some ctoCo'''Ie so. .ti.' - 80 =
"hat II SOME Oh thg ctlliG "''DI1ns ~ -. a.
drink should SINK IL; Nesseis OF w
sometimes carry forty guns looNii
through the port hgles' ready 10 CF,
battle But that lny craig on the M
seems to be armed with an the guns
thunder that bombarded SINAI at the las
giving. On how fragile cf'iLI soileu no
mucD historical importance.
The parsonage at EpWorth' EhS!alli'
on fire in The night ana tne lathef rtsit L
through the halfway iof 'le rescue s.''1..1 1i -. /
children. seven cEiliiith are ouV anu % 30